Chalice Consort presents 'A Window of a Pious Age' w/ Jeremy Summerly
Organization:
Chalice Consort
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
6/28/2015
End Date:
6/28/2015
Start Time:
5:00 PM
End Time:
6:30 PM
Event
Info:
2015 marks the assumed 500th anniversary of the birth of the English composer John Sheppard and the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian composer Simone Molinaro. Sheppard worked in Oxford and in London and wrote gloriously expansive Latin-texted music for use at the court of Queen Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Molinaro's professional life was colourful, not just because he wrote sensitively crafted vocal music, but because his uncle was murdered when he was Director of Music at Genoa Cathedral, and because Molinaro made editions of the music of Carol Gesualdo, an Italian nobleman who murdered his wife and her lover in cold blood. Both Sheppard and Molinaro embody the simultaneously decadent and fragile spirit of the Renaissance, and their music is a window on an age that was self-indulgently pious and viscerally concerned with ecclesiastical beauty.
About Jeremy Summery: Jeremy Summerly is a conductor and broadcaster. He studied music as an undergraduate at Oxford University and musicology as a postgraduate at King's College, London. He is founder-director of Oxford Camerata, conductor of Oxford Baroque, Director of Music at St Luke's, Chelsea, and Artistic Director of Mayfield Festival of Music and the Arts. He has conducted fifty original commercial recordings of music spanning nine centuries, and has conducted resident choirs and orchestras in locations as far afield as Melbourne, Helsinki, Tokyo, and Cape Town. He has edited four volumes of medieval and Renaissance music for Faber, has contributed to the new Cambridge History of Musical Performance, is a reviewer for BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Radio 3's CD Review, and is Choral Music Editor for Rhinegold Publishing's Choir & Organ magazine. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Music since 1989 where he has variously held the posts of Head of Academic Studies, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, and Sterndale Bennett Lecturer in Music.
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